Comments by "Florida Man" (@floridaman318) on "The 6 Most Extreme Societies Ever(We’re One)." video.

England had a hard enough time of feeding itself half the time during the industrial transition, so honestly did they really have the kind capacity to help people elsewhere like we do today? No. Militarily and economically dominating another nation is not the same as having the capacity to actually subsidize or care for that nation, which Britain did anyway since they left places like India with miles of rail lines for example. Food has only been truly plentiful really since about 1900, maybe even WW2. I think their seemingly cruel rationalizations are just that, post facto rationalizations for situations they couldn't really control on a class or individual level. Society is much more organic than intentional since any one individual only has so much power.
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